Oil on Board, 60cm x 75cm, Exhibited:
Royal Society of British Artists

Price on Application

Portrait painter and
teacher, born in Accrington, Lancashire, his father a surgeon and professor of
music of Russian descent. Attended Accrington School of Art then won a Royal
Exhibition in textile design to Royal College of Art. He studied there in 1939
and returned to the painting school, 1946-50: during WWII served in the Royal
Engineers, taking part in the Dunkirk evacuation. From 1950-8 de Rose taught at
various art colleges, including London College of Printing, then was head of the
faculty of fine art at Maidstone College of Art, 1958-67.
He was elected RBA in 1961, also showing at Royal Academy, RP, Zayder Gallery,
Bradford and Manchester Art Galleries, Paris Salon and other venues. Solo shows
included Trafford, Alwin and William Ware Galleries, Haworth Art Gallery in
Accrington which holds his work and widely in America. In the 1960ís de Rose
developed a reputation as a painter of the famous, subjects including the Duke
of Bedford, Julie Christie,Vita Sackville-West, Rod Steiger, Sammy Davis Junior,
Claire Bloom and Vladimir Nabokov, this portrait appearing on the cover of Time
magazine. The portraits are notable for their astute placing of the subject
against a plain background. By his peers de rose was remembered as a flamboyant
character. A small man with red hair and a stutter, he was a convivial member of
the Chelsea Arts Club, a skilled amateur magician and in his youth a formidable
boxer. He died in Hammersmith Hospital.

To purchase the Portrait of
Quentin Crisp by Gerard de Rose or make enquiries phone Peter or Maggie on 01398 323286 or email
peter@exmoorantiques.co.uk